Analysis Of What's Killing Poor White Women By Pottts

Education and the Great Divide Education has become such a common commodity in America that people have forgotten how important it truly is. Important to the point that it might be the difference between living a long and happy life, and living a terribly short one. The problem is that schooling isn’t as evenly spread-out as people would like to believe. There is a clear divide in the level of education that people receive between people of small rural towns and big urban cities. The divide doesn’t just end at schooling though, the level of schooling has a clear correlation with life expectancy; higher levels of education lead to longer lives lived. Education is what teaches people the health benefits from eating a salad instead of a juicy

The main purpose of the article is to show that the poor white women of rural towns deal with a multitude of difficulties which could lead to the steep decline if their life expectancy, and the majority of them stem from the lack of education the they receive. The primary support for her article comes from the personal account of Crystal Wilson and her family (a poorly educated family in rural Arkansas). Potts makes her statement clear with a concluding quote from the technology coordinator for the Cave City schools, Julie Johnson: “… I don’t know anything about anything, but that’s what kills them” (Potts

With an educational background of high school or less it is very likely to not know what “nutrition” even means. Not having an understanding of nutrition and how the things one eats matters leads to a variety of complications by itself. The most common disease it generally leads to is diabetes; the ever-growing plague of America. Diseases like this are even worse in the uneducated than in the average population because of the severe lack of understanding. The poor lack the understanding needed to communicate with their physicians about any problems, and fail to know the severity of their disease. Without knowing how severe their disease is they may choose to ignore it and hope it somehow goes away, or just choose not to go about fixing their lifestyle to survive it. For example, if someone suddenly found out that they had diabetes due to their lackluster diet; the educated and uneducated may behave drastically differently. The wealthy would have been educated about how severe diseases of this nature can be and how easily they can ultimately lead to death. With that knowledge, they would inevitably change their diet, and fight their way through it all until their body was in a better place and could slowly go back to normal. Those in poverty however, might assume that because they’re not in pain they are perfectly healthy. Diseases below the surface don’t work that way though, and the inflicted